Bug 406059

Summary:	Introduce bottom/top margin to prevent cut of indicator dot/line glow
Product:	[Unmaintained] lattedock	Reporter:	cyslider
Component:	plasmoid	Assignee:	Michail Vourlakos <mvourlakos>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.8.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Manjaro
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Example of glow getting cut

Description cyslider 2019-03-30 21:32:21 UTC

I would like to have the option to offset the glowing points from the bottom as they are too close to the border to my taste and even the glow gets cut. 
For my monitor it is even worse as it is a bad 4k monitor from Acer where the lower 5-10 pixels are only visible straight on but not when looking down as I do.

It took me some time to realize that as I wondered why this cut is worse on my system than in the screenshots.

So a bottom/top margin setting for icons including their dots/line indicators would be really nice.

Comment 1 Michail Vourlakos 2019-03-30 21:45:15 UTC

provide mockups and images with the issue and your proposed solution.

Comment 2 cyslider 2019-03-31 01:13:48 UTC

Created attachment 119170 [details]
Example of glow getting cut

Hi, I added a screenshot of my desktop and 

1) Magnified the lower part to show how the glow is being cut. This also is evident from your own example screenshots on the Github page: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/f4d7db4cb05d6d9f46854e18fd602974b90c23b8/68747470733a2f2f63646e2e6b64652e6f72672f73637265656e73686f74732f6c617474652d646f636b2f6c617474652d646f636b5f726567756c61722e706e67

I understand this is up to personal taste. Thus only a feature request.

2) Show that in reverse mode with 100% background the dots also touch the upper border. Which I personally find not appealing for the same reason.

3) I also added two photos that show my "additional" issue which makes my problem far worse, that my Acer 43 L ET430K has this really annoying issue of pixel at the border not showing if you look at them with a slight up/down angle. Which (looking down) can't be avoided on a 43'' monitor. Custom padding would solve this for me as well.

Comment 3 Michail Vourlakos 2019-04-02 14:16:53 UTC

sorry I like the current design... For anyone interested everyone can now create its own indicator styles if wants to...

https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/563/